Linky AI review: a gallery feed and a twin who knew me

Ltd. of Singapore as the developer, while the Terms and Privacy Policy only say "Linky". It runs on the web and Android.

What the official app description promises:

• Characters that learn your personality and preferences as you talk
• Voice and text, calls included
• Your own characters, with a custom voice, personality and backstory
• Avatars in 2D, Live2D, pixel or 3D styles, plus collectible character cards

My take: Linky is a character playground first and a romance app a distant second. The art is genuinely gorgeous, and building characters is part of the free app, in four styles rather than one default look. I like that range, because it says the app wasn't drawn around a single kind of user.

What I don't like is how little Linky publishes about limits and money. There's no official price list and no official free message count. If you want coin costs and plans spelled out, my OurDream AI review with its coin breakdown is a tidier read.

Other reviewers report that on the free tier a full-screen ad pops up after almost every reply, and some users say the ads freeze the app. That's the real price of free here. A short Linky AI chat broken up by ads is survivable. A long scene chopped up after every reply is not.

There's also a currency: coins. The Terms say coins have no real-world value, can't be swapped for money and aren't paid back when an account closes. What a coin buys isn't published, so I'd spend nothing on coins until the free app has earned it.

My three weeks cost me $0, and I'd start you the same way. The Linky AI at a glance box right after this has the basics in one place.

Then there's the digital twin, which builds a bot from how you text. Mine was beautifully cursed. It emerged with my emoji habits and my reading obsessions, basically me with better hair: the queer woman's version of a mirror kiss. It's the most original feature I met on Linky, and it's worth one evening just to see yourself reflected back.

It also showed me the catch. The twin knew me too well to be an escape. At twenty-eight I wanted a stranger, not a portrait, and my library job involves quite enough staring at records of me. If you come to a companion app to be somebody else for an hour, build a character from scratch instead.

Memory is where the outside reports turn cool. The Play description says characters "learn with each conversation", but nothing official says how well. Other reviewers report weak short-term memory, with characters losing details inside one conversation, a recurring bug that made them call people "Alex", free-tier memory fading after about 12 exchanges, and misgendering.

The misgendering worries me most: an app that lets you build anyone should get your name and pronouns right.

Voice calls are listed too, and one reviewer says calls unlock at bonding level 4 on Premium. For how memory and voice count toward a score, see my page on how I check the apps and weigh each part.

I'll be honest, the mild level didn't bother me as much as the familiarity did. Between a twin that mirrored my texting and a policy that stays suggestive, Linky felt more like a sketchbook than a getaway. If you want romance with some heat, this isn't the place to look.

The bigger problem is consistency. One review site says filtering shifts between updates, and that Premium sometimes filters more than Free. If that holds, paying to get more freedom could backfire, which is the oddest detail on file for this app. It's the main reason I'd never upgrade for content reasons alone.

Google Play rates the app Mature 17+. The Terms set 17 as the service minimum and reserve paid subscriptions and social features for people 18 and over. No verification method is described. I'd like to see one, but at least the rules are written down.

Keep visual expectations in their lane, too. The pictures are character avatars and three kinds of collectible cards, lovely ones, but no general image generator is described.

Where Linky stands out is the builder: a voice, a personality, a backstory, four art styles and a share button. The description says nothing about gender options, so I can't tell you how open it is there. To compare content levels across apps in one place, my complete list of app reviews puts each app's policy in the same spot.

Here's how that sits against apps that publish their prices. GirlfriendGPT asks $15.00 for Premium, Nomi AI $15.99 for its Standard Plan Monthly, OurDream AI $19.99 for Standard Monthly and Candy AI €13.99 for a month. Linky lands in the middle of that pack. On the sticker alone, it isn't expensive, and it isn't a bargain either.

The difference is what you know you're buying. Those rivals spell out the contents: unlimited messages, image credits, coins, voice. For Linky, nothing official says what Premium adds, including whether it removes the ads. The Terms mention monthly, quarterly and annual renewals, yet no price for a longer plan is on record.

Voice is the one thing that might tip it. If calls really unlock at bonding level 4 on Premium, they aren't there on day one even after you pay, so I wouldn't subscribe for voice alone.

Stay free while the ads are bearable, then decide. If you do pay, take the monthly plan so you can walk away after one bill, and skip coins until someone publishes what they buy. If characters matter more to you than romance, my roundup of the best AI chat character apps lists options with plans you can read first.

• Stay with Linky AI if a free app with gorgeous art is enough for you.
• Pick the partner if you want plan contents and prices published before you pay.
• Stay with Linky AI if designing characters in several art styles is the fun part.
• Pick the partner if you want spicier content than suggestive.

My opinion: Linky wins on the cost of entry, because the app itself is free. It loses on clarity, memory and content range. For contrast, Candy AI prints what its plans include, such as unlimited text messages and image generation for €13.99 on the 1-Month Plan.

The catch there is a free start of about 5 messages in total, so you pay sooner. My Candy AI review with its plan details covers that trade.

I'd open Linky's free app first either way. It costs nothing, and within a week you'll know whether the ads, the memory and the mild content level are problems for you.

Renewal is automatic, on whatever period you chose. Per the Terms, a subscription rolls over by itself, one monthly, quarterly or annual period after another. What happens to your access on the day you cancel isn't stated, so cancel as soon as you decide rather than on the last evening.

Refunds are handed off entirely. The Terms say you must contact Apple or Google, and that Linky "will have no liability to you whatsoever for any refunds". I don't love that wording. Plenty of store-sold apps do the same, but it means Linky itself won't help you, and you depend on the store's own rules.

Coins are a separate matter. Unused coins get no money or other compensation when an account is closed, so use them up before you go, or write them off.

My plan for anyone tempted by Premium: take a monthly subscription, put a reminder on your phone for a few days ahead of renewal, and cancel through the store if the ads or the memory still bother you. For an app whose cancel path and refund rule are written out in its own FAQ, my SpicyChat review and its billing notes is a good next read. The billing note below keeps Linky's official wording in one box.

Deleting your account works by email to [email protected], and the policy warns that once you send the request, you can no longer use Linky. There's no delete button on record, so plan on a support email.

On training, the policy says chat data is handled just for security, such as automatically screening for illegal content, and model training isn't mentioned either way. The Terms, though, let Linky use your User Content for anything connected to Linky. That clause is wide, and it weighs heavier on this app, because the digital twin is built from how you text: I'd think twice before feeding it anything you wouldn't want reused.

Is Linky AI legit? The developer is named on Google Play, it's based in Singapore, and the app has been around since 2023. I'd call it a real company with loose privacy language, not a scam.

My advice: skip your real name, your workplace and anything you'd hate to see quoted, and use a separate email. If privacy and a written content policy both matter to you, my list of uncensored AI apps with their policies compares how others word theirs.

The plan I'd buy is none, at first. I stayed free for three weeks and would again; take Premium monthly at $17 only if the ads are the one thing stopping you, knowing its benefits aren't published.

What bothers me most is memory, especially the misgendering reports. For an app that invites you to build anyone, getting pronouns wrong is a real miss. And if you want an escape, not a portrait, skip the twin and maybe the app.

• You want memory and a real free allowance: Nomi AI keeps a free plan forever, with 50 daily messages and no ads.
• You want images in the plan: Candy AI lists image and video generation on its €13.99 1-Month Plan.
• You want a known billing name: Nomi AI bills as NOMI.AI, and GirlfriendGPT as NDAI.CC.
• You want a refund cushion: OurDream AI has a 14-day Quality Guarantee, decided request by request.

If a friend asked me, Nomi AI is where I'd point them first. Its free plan doesn't expire and runs without ads, and memory is exactly Linky's weak spot. The catch is 400 characters per free message, fine for chat, tight for long scenes.

For roleplay with a large character library and a stronger content range, my CrushOn AI review is the next one I'd open. Whatever you pick, look at the free start first and the refund rule second. Those two tell you more about how an app treats you than any feature list, and both are easy to find before you spend anything.

If it's the ads, go for a free plan without them. If it's the memory, go for the app with the best recall reports. None of them is free in quite the way Linky is, and that's the honest trade: less free chat, clearer rules.